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Book The Court Ballet of Louis XIII

Download or read book The Court Ballet of Louis XIII written by Margaret M. McGowan and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Court Ballet of Louis XIII

Download or read book The Court Ballet of Louis XIII written by Margaret M. McGowan and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Court Ballet of Louis XIII

Download or read book The Court Ballet of Louis XIII written by Margaret M. McGowan and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Power and reputation at the court of Louis XIII

Download or read book Power and reputation at the court of Louis XIII written by Sharon Kettering and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to rehabilitate the reputation of Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, the controversial favourite of Louis XIII often maligned by historians. Kettering argues that the traditional historical interpretation of Luynes is significantly influenced by the testimony of Richelieu, who subjected Luynes to a devastating character assassination in his memoirs. Richelieu’s malice and the bias in histories based upon his memoirs justify another look at Luynes’ career. This book sifts through the historical evidence to offer a new perspective on Luynes, arguing that his contributions to the early years of Louis XIII’s government have been insufficiently appreciated, and in the process throws light upon a dark, unpleasant corner of Richelieu’s personality often ignored by historians. As well as advanced students and historians of early modern France, this book should interest those specialising in the history of the European courts, power politics, patronage and printed pamphlet literature.

Book The Cambridge Companion to Ballet

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Ballet written by Marion Kant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by international writers on the evolution of ballet.

Book Ballet Danced by Louis XIII in 1617

Download or read book Ballet Danced by Louis XIII in 1617 written by Greer Garden and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Rinaldo and Armida, where love conflicts with duty, magic plays a role, and morality wins the day, lends itself to being dramatised, and a number of librettists adapted it for the stage in the 17th and 18th centuries. In France, where the ballet de cour was the prime dramatic entertainment, the earliest adaptation of Tasso for the theatre was the Ballet du Roy danced by Louis XIII and his courtiers in the Salle du Louvre on Sunday, 29 Janary 1617. The fifteen-year-old King chose the subject from several proposed to him by Etienne Durand, the designer placed in charge of the occasion. La Delivrance de Renaud. The present publication is dedicated entirely to the study of a single ballet de cour. Its centrepiece is a modern edition of the complete livret, compiled by Etienne Durand, his Discours au vray du ballet danse par le Roy, le dimanche XXIXe jour de janvier 1617, avec les desseins, tant des machines et apparences differentes, que de tous les habits des Masques (Paris, Ballard, 1617) In the first group of articles we look at the kind of historical evidence provided by the main sources for the ballet de cour, the Vers and the livret, and the noble participants are introduced ; the second group deals with the sources of inspiration for the ballet; in the third group, we consider the music of our ballet; the fourth group deals with the scenography and other visual aspects of the performance; at the end, the last group of articles is dedicated to the dance.

Book The Court of Louis XIII

Download or read book The Court of Louis XIII written by Katherine Alexandra Patmore and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Portrait of a Dancer  Louis XIV

Download or read book Portrait of a Dancer Louis XIV written by Richard Ward Kiovsky and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Companion to French Music

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to French Music written by Simon Trezise and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible Companion provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive introduction to French music from the early middle ages to the present.

Book Dance as Text

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  • Author : Mark Franko
  • Publisher : CUP Archive
  • Release : 1993-04-30
  • ISBN : 9780521433921
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Dance as Text written by Mark Franko and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1993-04-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franko's analysis blends archival research with critical and cultural theory in order to resituate the burlesque tradition in its politically volatile context. Dance as Text thus provides a picture of the complex theoretical underpinnings of composite spectacle, the ideological tensions underlying experiments with autonomous dance, and finally, the subversiveness of Moliere's use of court ballet traditions.

Book Apollo s Angels

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  • Author : Jennifer Homans
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2010-11-02
  • ISBN : 0679603905
  • Pages : 640 pages

Download or read book Apollo s Angels written by Jennifer Homans and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully told, Apollo’s Angels—the first cultural history of ballet ever written—is a groundbreaking work. From ballet’s origins in the Renaissance and the codification of its basic steps and positions under France’s Louis XIV (himself an avid dancer), the art form wound its way through the courts of Europe, from Paris and Milan to Vienna and St. Petersburg. In the twentieth century, émigré dancers taught their art to a generation in the United States and in Western Europe, setting off a new and radical transformation of dance. Jennifer Homans, a historian, critic, and former professional ballerina, wields a knowledge of dance born of dedicated practice. Her admiration and love for the ballet, as Entertainment Weekly notes, brings “a dancer’s grace and sure-footed agility to the page.”

Book History of Dance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gayle Kassing
  • Publisher : Human Kinetics
  • Release : 2017-06-22
  • ISBN : 1492586420
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book History of Dance written by Gayle Kassing and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Dance, Second Edition, offers readers a panoramic view of dance from prehistory to the present. The text covers the dance forms, designs, artists, costumes, performing spaces, and accompaniments throughout the centuries and around the globe. Its investigative approach engages students in assignments and web projects that reinforce the learning from the text, and its ancillaries for both teachers and students make it easy for students to perceive, create, and respond to the history of dance. New to This Edition History of Dance retains its strong foundations from the first edition while adding these new and improved features: • An instructor guide with media literacy assignments, teaching tips, strategies for finding historical videos, and more • A test bank with hundreds of questions for creating tests and quizzes • A presentation package with hundreds of slides that present key points and graphics • A web resource with activities, extensions of chapter content, annotated links to useful websites, and study aids • Developing a Deeper Perspective assignments that encourage students to use visual or aesthetic scanning, learn and perform period dances, observe and write performance reports, develop research projects and WebQuests (Internet-based research projects), and participate in other learning activities • Experiential learning activities that help students dig deeper into the history of dance, dancers, and significant dance works and literature • Eye-catching full-color interior that adds visual appeal and brings the content to life Also new to this edition is a chapter entitled “Global Interactions: 2000–2016,” which examines dance in the 21st century. Resources and Activities The web resources and experiential learning activities promote student-centered learning and help students develop critical thinking and investigative skills.Teachers can use the experiential learning activities as extended projects to help apply the information and to use technology to make the history of dance more meaningful. Three Parts History of Dance is presented in three parts. Part I covers early dance history, beginning with prehistoric times and moving through ancient civilizations in Greece, Crete, Egypt, and Rome and up to the Renaissance. Part II explores dance from the Renaissance to the 20th century, including a chapter on dance in the United States from the 17th through 19th centuries. Part III unfolds the evolution of American dance from the 20th century to the present, examining imported influences, emerging modern dance and ballet, and new directions for both American ballet and modern dance. Chapters Each chapter focuses on the dancers and choreographers, the dances, and significant dance works and literature from the time period. Students will learn how dance design has changed through the ages and how new dance genres, forms, and styles have emerged and continue to emerge. The chapters also include special features, such as History Highlight sidebars and Time Capsule charts, to help students place dancers, events, and facts in their proper context and perspective. Vocabulary words appear at the end of each chapter, as do questions that prompt review of the chapter’s important information. The text is reader-friendly and current, and it is supported by the national standards in dance, arts education, social studies, and technology education. Through History of Dance, students will acquire a well-rounded view of dance from the dawn of time to the present day. This influential text offers students a foundation for understanding and a springboard for studying dance in the 21st century.

Book Serious Play  microform    Daniel Rabel s Classical and Burlesque Costume Designs for the Court Ballet of Louis XIII

Download or read book Serious Play microform Daniel Rabel s Classical and Burlesque Costume Designs for the Court Ballet of Louis XIII written by Graham Larkin and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dancing Queen

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  • Author : Melinda J. Gough
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2019-01-01
  • ISBN : 1487503660
  • Pages : 395 pages

Download or read book Dancing Queen written by Melinda J. Gough and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under glittering lights in the Louvre palace, the French court ballets danced by Queen Marie de M?dicis prior to Henri IV's assassination in 1610 attracted thousands of spectators ranging from pickpockets to ambassadors from across Europe. Drawing on newly discovered primary sources as well as theories and methodologies derived from literary studies, political history, musicology, dance studies, and women's and gender studies, Dancing Queen traces how Marie's ballets authorized her incipient political authority through innovative verbal and visual imagery, avant-garde musical developments, and ceremonial arrangements of objects and bodies in space. Making use of women's "semi-official" status as political agents, Marie's ballets also manipulated the subtle social and cultural codes of international courtly society in order to more deftly navigate rivalries and alliances both at home and abroad. At times the queen's productions could challenge Henri IV's immediate interests, contesting the influence enjoyed by his mistresses or giving space to implied critiques of official foreign policy, for example. Such defenses of Marie's own position, though, took shape as part of a larger governmental program designed to promote the French consort queen's political authority not in its own right but as a means of maintaining power for the new Bourbon monarchy in the event of Henri IV's untimely death.

Book Musical Theatre at the Court of Louis XIV

Download or read book Musical Theatre at the Court of Louis XIV written by Rebecca Harris-Warrick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le Mariage de la Grosse Cathos, a short ballet performed at the court of Louis XIV, is of major importance to the study of French Baroque dance. This facsimile reproduction of the entire manuscript is accompanied by a comprehensive study of the work itself and the context in which it was created and performed. Dated 1688, it provides a wealth of new and detailed information on numerous aspects of theatrical dance. It differs from the known choreographic sources in many respects, the two most important being the completeness of all its components--choreography, music, and text--and the use of a previously unknown dance notation system.

Book Dance as Text

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Franko
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0199794014
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Dance as Text written by Mark Franko and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet of the late Renaissance and early baroque. Franko's analysis blends archival research with critical and cultural theory in order to resituate the burlesque tradition in its politically volatile context. He reveals the ideological tensions underlying experiments with autonomous dance in the early modern.

Book Dance Music from the Ballets de Cour  1575 1651  Six allemandes   2  Ballet    Cheval fait pour le grand Carouselle fait a la Place Royal pour le Mariage de Louis 13  4 airs    3  Concert    Louis XIII par les 24 viollons et les 12 Grand hautbois de plusieurs airs choisy de Differens ballets  1627   4  Ballet des Nations       5  Ballet du Roy des Festes de Baccus     1651

Download or read book Dance Music from the Ballets de Cour 1575 1651 Six allemandes 2 Ballet Cheval fait pour le grand Carouselle fait a la Place Royal pour le Mariage de Louis 13 4 airs 3 Concert Louis XIII par les 24 viollons et les 12 Grand hautbois de plusieurs airs choisy de Differens ballets 1627 4 Ballet des Nations 5 Ballet du Roy des Festes de Baccus 1651 written by David J. Buch and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Buch's informative volume is the first modern study edition and commentary dealing with almost all of the surviving French five-part scores of dance music from the ballets de cour 1575-1651. These full scores are especiall y important since most ballets from this time are preserved only in two-part readings (melody and bass). The exception here is a newly-created five-part score for the Ballet des Nations based on an original two-part setting. Also included are the six Allemandes from 1575 to ca. 1600 a Ballet cheval of 1615 a selection of miscellaneous Entres from several ballets prepared for the Concert Louis XIII par les Viollons et lest 12 Grands hautbois of 1627 and Philidor's five-part reading of seventeen Entres from the Ballet du Roy des Festes de Baccus of 1651.